Tex Ritter smoke smoke smoke that cigarette

[Colasaus]

My name is Earl!

[lilmisslollypop2011]

soo cute

[benny42000]

Thumbs up if you DIDN'T need a video game to find this.

[ZoneBrd]

Personne parle francais ici ? x)

[StevePastor50]

The horns here startled me, because they weren't in the original.This is a "Big Band" version of a Wesern Swing tune (although in truth there were big Western Swing bands)

[REDNECKCABLETV]

my name is earl...

[pljtgh]

@REDNECKCABLETV Best show ever! Brilliant humor, shame it got canceled...

[REDNECKCABLETV]

@pljtgh That was a good show, i dont kno why it ever got canceled everybody liked it....

[tonziq]

Thumbs up if this song makes you wanna smoke

[Frizz90]

This is my 84yr old Grandma's favorite song! :D She sings it to me every time she sees me smoking

[v1v2go]

Brilliant track! Thumbs up if Thank You for Smoking sent you here!

[nightrockerdj]

thumbs up if My Name is Earl brought you here!

[joelinda2009]

This is John Ritters dad TEX

[guyglowmore1]

That's Texote Tim. I'd recognize that voice anywhere. He also invented Texative. look it up

[CarGuyZM10]

This is Tex Williams, and a later version of him singing it, because in the original, it was "the cutest little gal in the fourty-eight states"

[Imnomensa]

I don't know who it is , but it isn't Tex Ritter.

[milkmanthatscool]

Thumbs up if you got the Wanna Quit Tobacco ad

[tojofdeath]

my name is earl!

[tdrnkr]

None of my business but the singer here is Tex Williams not Ritter. Trust me,

[TheSamoanElvis]

Awe, LA Noire has this song on there? That's so cool!!! I'm watching my bro play right now.

[iProjectPixel]

Lol'd when I heard this on la noire

[stevenmartin991]

sorry to tell you but that is T. Texas Tyler singing that song

[TheJoeyEmilyShow]

@stevenmartin991 It has to be Tex Ritter. I would recognize that rich baritone voice anywhere, anytime.

[MasterSoki]

Thumbs up if LA Noire sent you here.



[redwingduck3]

this song kicks arse on LA noire

[Pickinbuddy]

I love Tex Ritter's voice--he puts the story across...and with perfect diction!

[5871248]

this fine old tune reminds me of a later tune version ofhot rod lincoln by Commander Cody and the lost planet airmen. well sorta anyway

ok I'm crazy and old so what.

[rosemarie443]

@5871248 yes i used to listen to the "hot rod lincoln" it is here on u tube, i pulled it up and listened to it.

[WendigoEsq]

Those who stated that this is Tex Williams, singing are correct. Tex Ritter's voice is deeper than that of Tex Williams' voice. There is a very distinctive difference between the voices of the two.

[rosemarie443]

@WendigoEsq then tell me why the title says Tex Ritter???????

[WendigoEsq]

@rosemarie443 It's not uncommon for some to mistake Tex Williams with Tex Ritter although there are distinctive differences in the voices. Also the similarities in the starting part of name, tends to cause some to confuse the two artists. However if you look closer a bit down the page, you'll see where Tex Williams is listed as the artist who recorded the song. This isn't the first song I've seen attributed to the wrong artist.

[WendigoEsq]

@rosemarie443 To see where it shows the artist, look just below the total views, just under likes, and dislikes. There the proper recording artist (Tex Williams) is attributed to the song. So similarities of name, or in some cases voice, will cause confusion as to who the artist is.

[rosemarie443]

@WendigoEsq OK what ever you think, that is fine with me. take care

[xmadxxx]

lol loved it

[Jhinson500]

this song is fucking gruesome to my ears

[rosemarie443]

@Jhinson500 then don't listen. nobody asked you to.

[pidulski3]

hoho I love it !

[joyteachem]

How about a version E cigarettes? I'll start one: Vape Vape Vape E cigarettes puff puff puff as you save yourself from death and if they ask you for a light say you just aint got me right cause I've altogether quit real cigarettes" BUT Judgment Day is May 21 so even though E cigs have huge potential to save many lives, they just can;t unless someone is right on the verge of dying now unless they stop right now. We got way more to worry about now than smoking. I am serious May 21 IS THAT DAY!

[jimraw1]

I think this is the version most people think of. As I remember reading somewhere, Williams and Merle Travis wrote the song in 1947. Phil Harris then did a big band version later that year that hit bigger on the charts than Williams. Williams re-recorded the song several years later with this big band style, and that's the one that usually gets played.

[zeuskiller09]

my great grandfather sings this. i love this song! makes me smile every time

[MichaelHansenFUN]

dr demento version was different

[anitalc1]

The late John Ritter's(Three's Company star) Dad.

[glipzik]

Forgot to add. They were both written by Merle Travis.

[glipzik]

This is a remake by Tex Williams. The original hit #1 in 1947 on both the pop best seller list and the country juke box charts within 3 weeks of it's debut.

The only country artist to top that was Tennessee Ernie with 16 tons which hit #1 on the Honor Roll Of Hits, Pop Best Sellers, Pop Disc Jockey chart, and Pop Juke Box chart all within 3 weeks on each chart. Ironically it tooks longer to reach #1 on the country charts.

[6061peb]

A singer named Phil Harris had a recording of this song, I believe, in the same time period. The swing band back-up here is not typical of Tex Ritter's style as I remember it; so this could be the Harris version which I still have. Oddly, the 78 RPM records survived, but the turntables to play them didn't. Anyone have anything on Phil Harrris?

[jimraw1]

@6061peb Most people under the age of 50 think of Phil Harris as the voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book (remember "The Bare Necessities")? He also did The Aristocats and Robin Hood, but he was huge in radio - first on Jack Benny, then with Alice Faye. I guess you would also consider him a B movie star - He was in The High and the Mighty with John Wayne, and Thunder Across the Pacific.

[bakhirun]

I ain't smokin' - the cigarette is though.

[cuppykeotaman]

This is Tex Williams singing a song he made famous. This is not Tex Ritter singing.

[ZAGGLETON]

Did Tex Ritter even sing this song? This is Tex Williams.

[daddyoj]

My friend just quit his band because they wouldn't let him have cigarette breaks. For Simon...

[FuckStaub]

whitch year was that record... good audio qulaity

[lilskynyrd]

BEST VERSION !

[bobby3847er]

On Facebook I discovered that this was the number 1 song when I was born That answered an obvious question but I managed to beat the weed 10 years ago

[CliffMortensen1]

Tex Williams no doubt! The picture is Tex Ritter-John Ritter's dad.

[officeboy1977]

I have listened to this song both with Williams and Ritter singing and I can say with 100% accuracy that this is Tex Williams singing. He has a much deeper voice then Ritter.

[MadTriggerman]

in the REAL version he says 48 states not "50"

[goatman069]

@MadTriggerman In the original lyrics that Marty Stuart wrote for Tex, it says

"With the cutest little girl in the United States" and also says "ah, Marty, excuse me please, I just gotta have me another, cigarette"; so it's open to some interpretation by the performing vocalist.

[OttoYamamoto]

@goatman069 I've heard '48 states'-and when Commander Cody covered the song he sung the lyric as '48 states'

[goatman069]

@OttoYamamoto In my comment, I did say:

"so it's open to some interpretation by the performing vocalist."

Anyone can change a lyric to something that suits them better.

[anitalc1]

@goatman069 I thought this was written in the late 1940's by Merle Travis and Tex Williams as a "Western Swing" tune,----Before Marty Stuart was even born???!!!

[EddiePennington]

It's Tex Williams not Ritter on this one. Written by Merle Travis.

[abetterpepper]

I believe this is the 1960 stereophonic recording by Tex Williams, rather than his original 1947 recording of the song.

[lahremanf]

I was suprised to hear the voice Tex Williams instead of Tex Ritter. This is Tex Williams not Tex Ritter singing.

Wonderful to hear this music again. Keep posting the gone, but NOT forgotten singers of yesterday.

[Travisab1]

I love Tex Ritter and this is his song...The next guy to make this son was also one of me favorites...

[msmoonbeam91]

i love this song i havent heard it since i was little

[andygarcia69]

definitely tex williams...

[inuyasha33437]

my 5 year old cousin sings this lmao

[jackeizer]

you dont have to look it up

his name is in the song just listen...

[moproducer]

little correction here...this ain't Tex Ritter...it's Tex Williams. Look it up.

[irishironhorse]

I don't know for sure about the photo, but the audio is definatly Tex Ritter

[moproducer]

Sorry, I've got a copy of the 78 from 1947 (Capitol), and this is it. Unless Tex Ritter changed his name to Tex Williams on my record, of course.

[whitefalcon64]

I use to cover this with my band, but this version is the king

[ArgyleGroove]

to me, this is the ONLY version of this song.

[Matthew6981]

same with me,

[wheelofteeth]

Fantastic!!! Thx for posting. 5/5